Barnaby Howarth thinks of himself as an average bloke. His story however, is anything but average. A type-1 diabetic and former AFL player, his life changed dramatically at the age of 25 when he was king hit in an alcohol-fuelled attack, leading to a stroke and permanent brain damage.
He was forced to rebuild his life and learnt to dig deep and find the power within to overcome his challenges.
When his first wife died of cancer, he had to again look within to move forward. Barnaby is a successful keynote speaker and resilience coach who draws on his experiences and amusing anecdotes to help people be the best they can behas spoken to groups such as Google, Linfox, Nestlé, Toshiba and the Chris O'Brien Lifehouse in places such as San Diego, Calgary, Auckland, and Dubai, on three cruise ships around Australia.
He has spoken to corporate groups, school groups, sports clubs, hospitals and has hosted his own events including “Give It a Crack” – a night of stand-up comedy performed by non-standard comedians.
Current Work:
On his podcast, Everyday Greatness, Barnaby has interviewed former Australian of the year Adam Goodes, Order of Australia Medallists Gail Obrien, Gabrielle Trainor and Scott Gibbons, Sydney Swans CEO Tom Harley, ABC sports journalist Tracey Holmes and CEO of the Antarctic Science Foundation Andrew J Kelly.
He is an ambassador for Medtronic helping promote their insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring systems to help manage his type 1 diabetes. He is also an ambassador for the DANII Foundation – A group that aims to bring this life-saving diabetes technology and make it affordable for Australian patients.
He works as an autocue operator at ABC News with his career but speaking is his passion job that helps him add value to the world as a person with a disability after the brain damage he suffered during his stroke.
He is also a deacon in the Coptic church, has tried stand-up comedy and is a proud Australian Bulldog owner.
Talking Points
Finding your Everyday Greatness
Everywhere you look these days people seem to be just faking it till they make it, and a lot of people measure their own value against these fake avatars and personal brands and are left feeling worthless, anxious and sometimes depressed. In this presentation Barnaby offers a REAL point of difference – he makes people feel good about who they are, what they are doing and who they work for – he helps people find their Everyday Greatness.Finding your Everyday Greatness
If you engage Barnaby Howarth, get more value then you can measure on bottom line results:
Barnaby offers powerful real-life resilience strategies to help you recover from life's daily setbacks.
He helps you find the power within to keep putting one foot in front of the other, with a smile on your face, knowing that simple human kindness can make you money and help you find strength and power.
Real life Resilience
The accumulation of all of the small goodness you put back into the world every day gives you the resilience you need to deal with any challenge.
Real life Resilience
Families are magic
The strength you need to get through your life comes largely from the small acts of support you get every day from your family.
Families are magic
Self-belief
Everything you need to be the person you want to be inside you right now.
Self-belief
Leadership
Helping teams realise that trying your hardest and being proud of yourself is good enough.
Leadership
Loyalty
If you are surrounded by good people making kind decisions, we should do everything we can to pay that kindness back.
Loyalty
GOOD culture leads to GREAT success
About how creating good culture in any group is about the accumulation of small goodness put back into it by every single member, not just a handful of influential people, putting the grip on their shoulders and carrying it in a brave new direction.
GOOD culture leads to GREAT success
Leading with Kindness
Insights on modern leadership from influential modern leaders when they joined Barnaby on Everyday Greatness.
Leading with Kindness
Our students have many life lessons to learn and he is the perfect person to deliver them. ... keep reading The Hills Grammar School
Barnaby is the ultimate role model. His profound life journey, along with the rich perspective he has developed along the way, is utterly inspiring.
His positive attitude to life after suffering a major stroke through no fault of his own gave our young players an extremely important message to learn from when dealing with setbacks in life.
...there couldn't be any one more qualified than Barnaby to take our players through his reflections on leadership, overcoming adversity and living a good life.
Barnaby Howarth did a keynote presentation for the Fortnum Group at our July 2017 Conference. Not only was the delivery by Barnaby outstanding but the message he gave struck a chord with the whole audience. We had tremendous feedback from everyone regarding Barnaby's contribution to the Conference. I would have no hesitation in recommending him to other conference organisers.
